17 candidates to vie for Polish presidency in key vote

17 candidates to vie for Polish presidency in key vote

Seventeen candidates will face off to become president of Poland, the electoral commission said on Friday, in a key ballot-box test pitting the ruling pro-European government against two nationalist challengers. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist government will hope to end the awkward cohabitation it has been forced into with conservative President Andrzej Duda, who has repeatedly vetoed key reforms. Friday was the deadline for presidential …

Seventeen candidates have registered to run in Poland's presidential election, with the first round set for May 18, the electoral commission announced. The vote is crucial for the ruling pro-European coalition.

Today was the last day for submitting applications, and the number of candidates may still change after verification by the committee. The second round of presidential elections, scheduled for June 1, will probably be necessary to choose the successor of the outgoing head of state, the conservative Andrzej Duda, who continues to block the major reforms proposed by the Government, thus perpetuating the legal chaos inherited from the previous nati…

17 candidates submitted applications to participate in this year's presidential election in Poland — the highest number of candidates for the presidential seat since 1995.

In the presidential election in Poland in May, 17 candidates want to compete. This was announced by the country's election commission on Friday after the deadline for submission of candidatures. In the race for the successor of outgoing conservative President Andrzej Duda, Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski is currently ahead of the liberal-conservative citizen platform of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He comes in polls to between 33 and 35 percent.In…

Will the electoral situation from France or Romania be repeated in one form or another in Poland? There, the judiciary was used (in the case of...